WILSONVILLE, Ore. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — October 24, 2011 —
Mentor
Graphics Corp. (NASDAQ:
MENT), a leader in advanced system
verification solutions, and MoreThanIP, the market leader in delivery of
IP products for high-speed communications, serial backplanes, and
embedded system technologies, today announced they have collaborated to
deliver emulation solutions for the verification of Multi-Gigabit
Ethernet Systems-on-Chips (SoCs).

The combination of the Mentor®Veloce®
hardware emulation technology and the
iSolveTM
application solutions with MoreThanIP’s best-in-class Ethernet 40G/100G
MAC / PCS IP Cores, delivers a high-performance and productive
environment for handling the verification of up to hundreds of Ethernet
ports associated with switch and router SoCs. The goal of both companies
is to help bring complex telecom SoC designs to market on schedule,
without compromising verification accuracy or performance.

MoreThanIP is recognized as a team of industry experts in the delivery
of IP cores for multi-Gigabit-speed telecom applications, which are
specifically designed to achieve a high level of re-usability to
dramatically reduce the development time of complex SoCs.

“As the leader in the development and delivery of Multi-Gigabit Ethernet
MAC IP for advanced telecom applications, MoreThanIP is committed to
providing the best possible verification solutions for our customers. By
combining with Mentor and their Ethernet switch solutions for emulation,
customers benefit from a high-speed platform that enables them to
perform hardware verification of their telecom chips many weeks or
months before they are committed to real silicon, increasing their
verification productivity and improving their time-to-market,” said
Daniel Koehler, CTO, MoreThanIP. “We are excited that our collaboration
with Mentor will yield significant productivity boosts for our customers
who design and develop 10, 40, 100 and next generation 400 Gigabit
Ethernet switches and routers with complex system features such as IEEE
1588 and EEE (Energy Efficient Ethernet) with full KR (IEEE802.3ap
Ethernet Backplane) support.”

The Veloce product is one of the industry’s fastest dual-mode
accelerator/emulators, providing MHz performance for both
transaction-based verification and traditional in-circuit emulation
(ICE). With an extensive portfolio of iSolve vertical market solutions,
the Veloce product is the platform of choice for networking, wireless,
multimedia, storage, and embedded systems applications.

“We worked closely with MoreThanIP to implement this high-performance
solution for Multi-Gigabit Ethernet applications, and to extend our
ability to deliver the industry’s premier emulation solutions for
networking applications,” said Richard Pugh, Mentor Emulation
Division product marketing manager. “Our combined industry-leading
technologies deliver reliable and easy-to-use Ethernet verification
solutions that help customers to innovate and meet their time-to-market
pressures for their network-chip designs. By teaming with MoreThanIP, we
continue to improve our iSolve solutions for use with Veloce.”

About Mentor Graphics

Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ:
MENT) is a world leader in
electronic hardware and software design solutions, providing products,
consulting services and award-winning support for the world’s most
successful electronic, semiconductor and systems companies. Established
in 1981, the company reported revenues over the last 12 months of about
$915 million. Corporate headquarters are located at 8005 S.W. Boeckman
Road, Wilsonville, Oregon 97070-7777. World Wide Web site:
http://www.mentor.com/.

(Mentor Graphics, Mentor and Veloce are registered trademarks and iSolve
is a trademark of Mentor Graphics Corporation. All other company and/or
product names are the trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their
respective owners.)